>We visited 355 cities in 40 countries and turned in a total of 17,303 wallets. We typically targeted five to eight of the largest cities in a country, with roughly 400 observations per country. Wallets were turned in to one of five types of societal institutions: (i) banks; (ii) theaters, museums, or other cultural establishments; (iii) post offices; (iv) hotels; and (v) police stations, courts of law, or other public offices. …
>Our key outcome measure was whether recipients contacted the owner to return the wallet. We created a unique email address for each wallet and recorded emails that were sent within 100 days of the initial dropoff …
>we also ran a “BigMoney” condition in three countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland) that increased the money inside the wallet to US$94.15, or seven times the amount in our original Money condition. As shown in Fig. 2, reporting rates in all three countries increase even further when the wallets contained a sizable amount of money. …
>we conducted a “Money-NoKey” condition in our U.S., U.K., and Poland locations with wallets identical to our Money condition but which did not contain a key. Unlike money, the key is valuable to the owner but not to the recipient, and so any difference between the Money and MoneyNoKey conditions can be ascribed to altruistic concerns. As shown in table S10, recipients were, on average, 9.2 percentage points more likely to report a wallet with a key than one without (P = 0.0001 when results are pooled across countries). This suggests that recipients reported a lost wallet partly because they were concerned about the harm they would impose on the owner by not reporting it.
Seems like Poland doesn’t really care whether the wallet has money or not, (some) will report it anyway
Now find the papers about dictator game results, they have pretty amazing results too. The cultures really are different and maybe we are not the best under the sun, but we have nothing to be ashamed tbh
Mexico 👌
Ha ha, Mexico 😀
Mexico is giving some big balls energy right here.
I love the idea that they are more likely to keep a wallet if it’s empty. “Damn shame, I wanted to keep this, but there is money inside”.
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Looks pretty close to a poverty ranking. So not honesty, but necessity.
paywall 😭
The possible culprits are social changes due to Comustic era( when you need black market to somewhat normally operate you gonna lern that contacts and favours are more valuable than monney) that later evolved to simple social quirk more than actual strategy to gain favors, alongside quite strange and maybe a bit controversial one…
Police… Is relatievely well recieved here. At least ones that are not traffic police or the highest ones. Let’s be real, I feel many people see Policeman as just “normal bloke with a bit shittier job”. Of course the image of police ain’t perfect, sometimes we saw use of excesive force, but due to rarity of such events crime side ain’t too bad.
And finally, some simply focus on finders fee which is equal to 10% of monetary value of found thing. Of course you may need to go to courte over it, but it is also a possible coulprit.
Overall, lf I I were to find a wallet, would give it to the pollice. It ain’t mine, there might be id or some other things valuable to owner but not me, and that way I did the right thing.
This nicely corelates with lies and scams. Who plays online games know what i am thinking about.
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>We visited 355 cities in 40 countries and turned in a total of 17,303 wallets. We typically targeted five to eight of the largest cities in a country, with roughly 400 observations per country. Wallets were turned in to one of five types of societal institutions: (i) banks; (ii) theaters, museums, or other cultural establishments; (iii) post offices; (iv) hotels; and (v) police stations, courts of law, or other public offices. …
>Our key outcome measure was whether recipients contacted the owner to return the wallet. We created a unique email address for each wallet and recorded emails that were sent within 100 days of the initial dropoff …
>we also ran a “BigMoney” condition in three countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland) that increased the money inside the wallet to US$94.15, or seven times the amount in our original Money condition. As shown in Fig. 2, reporting rates in all three countries increase even further when the wallets contained a sizable amount of money. …
>we conducted a “Money-NoKey” condition in our U.S., U.K., and Poland locations with wallets identical to our Money condition but which did not contain a key. Unlike money, the key is valuable to the owner but not to the recipient, and so any difference between the Money and MoneyNoKey conditions can be ascribed to altruistic concerns. As shown in table S10, recipients were, on average, 9.2 percentage points more likely to report a wallet with a key than one without (P = 0.0001 when results are pooled across countries). This suggests that recipients reported a lost wallet partly because they were concerned about the harm they would impose on the owner by not reporting it.
[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712)
Seems like Poland doesn’t really care whether the wallet has money or not, (some) will report it anyway
Now find the papers about dictator game results, they have pretty amazing results too. The cultures really are different and maybe we are not the best under the sun, but we have nothing to be ashamed tbh
Mexico 👌
Ha ha, Mexico 😀
Mexico is giving some big balls energy right here.
I love the idea that they are more likely to keep a wallet if it’s empty. “Damn shame, I wanted to keep this, but there is money inside”.
[deleted]
Looks pretty close to a poverty ranking. So not honesty, but necessity.
paywall 😭
The possible culprits are social changes due to Comustic era( when you need black market to somewhat normally operate you gonna lern that contacts and favours are more valuable than monney) that later evolved to simple social quirk more than actual strategy to gain favors, alongside quite strange and maybe a bit controversial one…
Police… Is relatievely well recieved here. At least ones that are not traffic police or the highest ones. Let’s be real, I feel many people see Policeman as just “normal bloke with a bit shittier job”. Of course the image of police ain’t perfect, sometimes we saw use of excesive force, but due to rarity of such events crime side ain’t too bad.
And finally, some simply focus on finders fee which is equal to 10% of monetary value of found thing. Of course you may need to go to courte over it, but it is also a possible coulprit.
Overall, lf I I were to find a wallet, would give it to the pollice. It ain’t mine, there might be id or some other things valuable to owner but not me, and that way I did the right thing.
This nicely corelates with lies and scams. Who plays online games know what i am thinking about.
now this is stats, fascinating
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